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I've never been stuck in such a slump before, my life seems pointless.

"It's a bit of a marketing push, " Mr. Soneira said. "It's really pointless for a small TV under typical viewing conditions. "

If you've read one of my books, thanks. I write them to be read, so without you, it would be a pointless exercise.

What have the locals got to do with it? the question was pointless wars not whether just or unjust.

To say a woman is talented and scholarly is like praising a flower for balancing on the scale with a cabbage or potato-utterly pointless.

Its syntax appears to be that of a succession of three imperative clauses: one pointless, one mysterious, and one scarcely even coherent.

It is never pointless, it is always worth reading, and it has an action for you to take.

However the question posed in this discussion assumes that wars can be, at least to a degree, pointless.

Trying to ignore a small ache until it grows into a pain is just pointless.

Odie, let's talk effort versus return here. you know , you can still lead a pointless life without all that running around.

You know you are maturing when you begin to see the hand of God in the random, baffling, and seemingly pointless circumstances of life.

Again I ask her: you think you now, in all the work of the most pointless waste of your time and energy work is what?

At present it is a question of how much power you can get from a fixed engine capacity ? as said, a wholly pointless exercise.

Instead, when Julia goes to bed at 11pm, I pad around the house, or work until 2am or 3am. It's pointless trying to sleep any earlier.

If you smoke, you should be prepared to get lung cancer; it's pointless to ask "why did God do this to me? "

It may seem time-consuming or even pointless, but it's a simple method that you can put to the test to see if it helps for you.

Waldfogel's work is often misinterpreted as suggesting that gift-giving is pointless.

Trying to get there by a pell-mell fielding of the costliest renewables is pointless.

Going on, as we do, obsessively trying to improve our conditions, can become an end in itself, and a pointless distraction.

But to be blunt, measuring the PageRank of your own website or that of your competitors is absolutely pointless.

He said it was "pointless to think" governments' borrowing costs could be lowered for a protracted period by "external" intervention.

Some people say that I am a bit cold, I said a little lonely, lonely, I said, pointless, I do not deny that.

Picking fights with neighbors over minor issues is pointless, especially now, and on this point Krugman and I are in synch.

I had fallen so far behind that it seemed pointless trying to catch up.

all day? That sounds really boring and pointless. Think about it-you could've worked for eight hours and.

At least that's the thinking. But remember, the thinking a decade ago was that stimulus was pointless.

At this point it seems as if the mini stasis is pointless.

We would not want you wasting your energy or time on pointless actions, when there will be so much to do of a positive nature.

Gene said screening would be pointless because there was no place to send the rejects.

MR. NORTON said the experience taught him how social networking could be "productive, not just pointless chatter. "

The plan seems to be to start a pointless peace process, in the hope of averting a meaningless UN declaration.

While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

It is pointless getting obsessed with China and trying to compete with it.

This is one of those completely pointless tricks that has no useful application whatsoever, but it's still fun to figure out how to do.

But it was all really a bit pointless and I couldn't be bothered.

It is pointless to continue with it unless you intend that look to be the prevailing surface appearance for the remainder of the painting.

Nobody's heart ever beat faster because their eyes met across a crowded room and thought: "I could spend a pointless few years with him. "

They were welcome; but unless he shows a greater readiness to negotiate in good faith, his belated move will turn out to be pointless.

The former was a pointless irritant to the Russians who never believed the US story that it was a response to a threat from Iran.

This was always dull, but is now pointless too, as the votes have all been cast by proxy ahead of time.

This provides the working capital for the next project and is the essence of capitalism; without financial gain, the risks seem pointless.

Even the overwhelmingly pointless, waste-producing products like this Hello Kitty Disposable Solar Powered Cell Phone Charger.

In the grand scheme of things, turning up in court to defend your client is as pointless as polishing bread.

Alliances aren't binding, so without some sort of trust and co-operation, the game is pointless.

It's pointless trying to drive up sales by advertising during an economic slowdown.

Clinging to the first and trying to prolong it is a pointless waste of energy.

I know I said pointless, but I still want to talk to you, okay?

GEORGE BUSH'S second visit to Israel in a year seemed even more pointless than his first one.

It's all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

There are far fewer pointless emails, and even senders of spam seem to be plying their craft with less enthusiasm than normal.

Boring, pointless meetings are just one of the symptoms of an entire ecosystem of poor organization and communication.

Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of Facebook was "ridiculous and pointless, " nevertheless chose the stock.

That way, we'd at least get some use out of their pointless existence.

The game is pointless, of course. But it has made him ponder the whole date and time arrangement people take for granted.

But it seemed to me a pointless and unproductive kind of discussion.

True, some of the costly stadiums may turn out to be pointless baubles.

Amedda's booming voice often called for order when the partisan nature of the Republic's government degenerated into pointless bickering.

It actually occurs but is in many senses of the word totally pointless.

Mulder: Sarah, if it were true, no life would be pointless .

Though getting married out of boredom was pretty pointless, there was still something positive in it.

"These changes make many of the old disputes seem pointless, or at least secondary, " says Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles.

What's the point of giving the country's workers Monday off if they just reschedule all the pointless meetings on Tuesday?

Why did he launch a pointless months-long debate about "national identity" if it led only to the resuscitation of the National Front?

You know that so much of the stuff they teach in school is pointless.

However, much of what you're facing is itself in transition, which means those battles to regain control would soon become pointless.

It's a terrible idea to call your memories pointless unless you want readers to agree.

With so much waiting to come into your lives for the better, you can view any attempts to interfere as quite pointless.

if there were a point , we fail to catch it , or the remark was perhaps really pointless , their expression seemed to say.

It is perhaps pointless to contemplate what might have been changing.

Once, noticing that his trademark blue blazer had become so frayed that repair was pointless, Mrs. Sanford bought him a new one.

I already know all that stuff so it's pointless to waste an hour doing homework when I already know it.

Amanda: So that's what you've been doing all day? That sounds really boring and pointless.

On a treadmill, at least you get some exercise, but worry is a truly pointless activity.

To do so would have meant burdening your life, which must be a happy one, with pointless self-recriminations.

But his efforts were almost pointless; Heap was taking on the Islamic Republic in a game of one on one, and he was no match.

To have a goal, a destination, would be one thing, but to drown in the sheer plenitude of worlds for its own sake seemed utterly pointless.

We've given up on him because he is so stubborn. It is pointless to argue with him.

We suppose it pointless talking to a boss blind to his own faults.

It is really pointless to sit through a tedious lecture if you do not take any interest in it.

Were the horrific yet wholly pointless American adventures in Vietnam and Iraq evidence of a good international citizen?

If we judge Santiago only in terms of his material success, then he is indeed a failure in a pointless story.

And again, we shall see that there is a logic behind even such pointless or self-destructive behaviour.

Men would realize that this task was pointless and demeaning.

But insisting that Hamas recognises Israel outright before it can be deemed worthy of any kind of co-operation is pointless.

It was a precursor of reality television in giving ordinary people a chance to become famous for eccentric, often pointless, tasks.

It was pointless and would have been cruel to engage in a debate on the nuances of crisis management.

According to model-dependent realism, it is pointless to ask whether a model is real, only whether it agrees with observation.

I told PGL that this is pointless to play anymore like this and i will not play the match for the 3rd place .

Mind you, it would be pointless to pretend that many children don't clash with their parents over the partner bedding issue.

All this frenzy of pointless activity is required, it is said, to keep the economy going.

The RCZ is neither, but unless Peugeot follows it up with more models that share its qualities, it will be a pointless digression.

Having failed to resolve the present-day conflict, the leaders retreated to a pointless debate about history.

Well, we've learned that it's pointless to try to optimize computer software in isolation from the hardware, or vice versa.

Your correspondent was aware of them over a decade ago while she slogged through a largely pointless PhD in theoretical ecology.

A reactionary longing for the neat historical world of fifty years ago is just as pointless as despondent resignation.

Is accustomed to everything. No longer go on living to do some pointless struggle.

Calcium Block: It's pointless to put a calcium block into some cockatoo cages.

When worry takes on a life of its own, it becomes a huge and often pointless drain on our time and energy.

Yet it would be foolish to assume that seeking to reduce risk by buying assets whose returns are uncorrelated has become pointless.

It was a completely pointless thing to do for you.

Since this uber bucket manages clothing metadata, it is pointless to put in metadata about your car or your dog's vaccination schedule.

But their guardians, the filmmakers, ill served them by stranding them in the woods for a pointless extra episode.

It's pointless trying to find out everything there is to know about a nut or berry if we starve in the process.

We do not comprehend all the circumstances, so it is pointless to speculate on what happened.

I am not into pointless dating, and I hope to hear from some fun guys soon.

i would consider any war that left things as the status quo when it was finished as pointless because nothing changed.

The 'Pointless answering' answers the question of 'futile asking', from which we know that they are laymen.

A search that turns up thousands of programmes is pointless, says Fred Amoroso, Rovi's CEO: people want small lists of relevant choices.

heap . . . on Burgin heaped scorn on painting and sculpture which he described as pointless pastimes.

"Jeez, it will be pointless to get into the groove of a focused study session for just thirty measly minutes" , he thinks out loud.

Then I would be the first person in history taken to court for disobeying the most annoying and most pointless legal paragraph ever drafted.

Update: The people who feel that indirect education is pointless miss out on the fundamental concept.

He holds the view that this article is pointless.

And, as far as the domain name parts of the bill are concerned, the approach is largely pointless from a technical perspective.

We don't know all the circumstances, so it would be pointless to speculate.

China also beats its own GDP targets as a matter of routine, which makes them pointless.

A third of the border is fenced, and most of the rest is in areas so remote or rugged as to make fences pointless or impractical.

Pointless game. . . No intensity or will at all. They better show up against the Jazz tomorrow.

She went on "Why it's pointless to make a study of the relationship between life and work? "

This may seem like a minor distinction (or even a pointless one), but it's pretty important in practice.

There is no shortage of pointless laws in her line of business.

Subsequent masters tried to answer that inquiry and searched until the effort was deemed pointless.

She remained silent, it was pointless arguing with her father.

Sheldon: Please don't tell me that your hopeless infatuation is devolving into pointless jealousy.

Trying to cure what is normal is pointless.

nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.

Men can sit through the most pointless, boring movie if there's even the slightest possibility that a woman will take her top off.

Is it a pointless anachronism or an invaluable moral guide?

So technologically speaking, it is quite pointless just to ban the research on human cloning while allowing the research on animal cloning.

Small wonder the Senate lavishes so much public cash on pointless projects in empty hamlets.

This might seem pointless, but it permits exploration of animal processes that have long been mysterious.

It liberates money: buying that new car or those fun fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless.

The academic revealed he had tested the principle by getting a research assistant to carry out pointless tasks.

But the beginner is confined to the little things, to the meaningless exercises and pointless mechanics.

It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless.

The football war between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 was a rather pointless war, triggered by a football (soccer) game.

While unlikely, this could be triggered by the EU not giving Microsoft any relief and making the effort look pointless.

It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and completely pointless.

We are not so inspired or comforted by the notion that this is a pointless exercise.

He heaped scorn on painting and sculpture which he described as pointless pastimes .

No one would talk to you because you liked ABBA, because they were considered to be hopelessly pointless pop.

An adversarial or uncooperative attitude can easily scuttle any positive results and plunge the discussion into pointless hostility .

However, it is painful and pointless to fixate on a period that cannot be relieved or repaired.

We HAD fallen so far behind that it seemed pointless continuing.

Complaining about the bitter fruit of refusals to understand this is as absurd as it is pointless.

Even so, I still think you probably did right, in a pointless kind of way.

This takes a huge amount of effort and is pointless now that so many free open-source content management systems are available.

Bin Laden's death is an extraordinary moment for Americans and all who have lost loved ones in horrifying, pointless acts of terrorism.

One of the most vexed, and ultimately pointless, fights will be over "own resources" .

Others felt it would encourage pointless arguing and drag the community down to a lower level of awareness.

But all of the work you are doing to move forward in a positive way will be pointless if you don't make long-term healthy lifestyle choices.

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Therefore, like the other guy hinted at, this thread is pointless.

It would be safe adn comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.

It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.

If a goal does not improve your present reality, then the goal is pointless, and you may as well dump it.

The foreign ministry spokesman on Sunday reiterated Beijing's stance that the detention was "illegal and pointless" .

I'm much more likely to share a single story with friends rather than a news site's home page, so the glowing button seems pointless.

These events happened spontaneously, so I couldn't force one, but they helped me see how pointless my own cravings were.

Time for a quick survey: Would you feign a sudden cellphone call to avoid that pointless story?

Life without you would be like a broken pencil. . . pointless.

But merely to list them all, with brief identifying comments, would be pointless .

Nor how, because this has changed, has already become the verdict, again to talk about, pointless.

This kind of pointless crystal-gazing only deflected attention from a much more important question.

Appreciate self is better than appreciate the pointless man.

And since America is never going to accept North Korea as a nuclear power, six-party talks seem pointless and doomed.

In my view it would be pointless to lose those years in cold-war-style confrontation.

His peers see advertising, the struggling sector's congealing lifeblood, as "extremely annoying and pointless" .

But that does not mean that the TEEB process is either propagandistic or pointless.

The Iraq war was pointless AND illegal under the Nuremberg Statutes used to prosecute Nazi war criminals.

Nale: Don't be dense, honey, that would be pointless and self-indulgent.

But currently it is offline only and pointless for anyone old enough to live away from their mates.

We realize that It is pointless to waste so much time to discuss this kind of problem.

Do you know when you have a cup of coffee or do something pointless things, these missions and covered with a layer of dust?

Abundance makes command relationships difficult to sustain and exchange relationships an almost pointless game.

Our messages, they claim, tend to be vague, pointless and often damaging.

So what if you don't have much of a network and think this tool is pointless?

Take no notice of your inner critic. Judging yourself is pointless.

When I asked Ghiles for predictions about voting in Egypt and Tunisia, he said: "At this stage it's completely pointless. "

What we really like is playing with the system, poking around, and discovering completely pointless yet fascinating facts about the OS.

Battle lines were simply impossible to manage in the dense woodlands , and largely pointless against the native tribes!

After bitter and pointless debate, the council zoned the lot for the gas station and the galaxy above the lot for the sign.

Political commentator Veera Prateepchaikul described it as 'pointless. '

These malevolent and pointless actions prevent all players from accessing the free service at their disposal.

The civilized world suddenly seemed pointless to her.

It's pointless to talk about it, because lately I saw a 40-year-old be the best man on the pitch.

I'll go out on a limb here, and offer World War I as rather pointless.

Moving towns in an effort to escape earthquakes was pointless, he wrote.

I despise "internet culture" . It's so pointless, so self-fulfilling, so completely insular and without context.

Daydreaming may seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain's processing power.

Sledding is simple, and pointless, yet can provide entire afternoons of entertainment and thrills.

You may think this type of thing is pointless, but for me it's the perfect example of why I'm so drawn to Elder Scrolls games.

Teens see adverts on websites - pop ups, banner ads - as "extremely annoying and pointless, " Robson said.

It is an impressive display of competitive commercial activity. It is also increasingly pointless.

But in my experience, despite all the pointless ritual of annual appraisals, it is something that most people have little idea about.

Some questions are pointless and groundless while some are worth analyzing or really insightful .

Continuing under these wretched conditions seems pointless.

a pointless remark; a life essentially purposeless; senseless violence.

Little would say "modern monarchy" more than abandoning the pointless headgear.

It was stupid, pointless, irritating beyond belief that he still had four days left of.

But complaining about media coverage is pointless; frenzies over sex scandals won't abate unless the public appetite for them diminishes.

With the Middle East in turmoil, starting a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks is completely pointless.

Few can compete with rich celebrities when it comes to fabulously pointless spending habits.

As his imagination faltered and grew dim, the fending off of maturity became desperate, demented and pointless.

Now please stop making pointless assumptions without proper evidences.

For most governments in rich countries, holding gold remains a largely pointless activity.

He wanted to be like them and to act like them, and so his experience of the more pointless forms of life rapidly broadened.

There are those who say it's pointless to dress for an interview in a way that you wouldn't once you're on the job.

Any attempt to do so is pointless.

This is illegal . . . I can't answer any more of these pointless questions.

The big thing the movie missed, however, is the acknowledgement of how pointless the ends are.

Despite a series of rousing adventures among spirited youngsters, Jolee remained weary of the galaxy's endless, pointless struggles.

An expert said it may stop people wasting energy on pointless courtships.

This seemingly pointless operation actually has a significant effect.

So their appreciation and their remembering of you that is not notice by you, it's kind of pointless.

Kremlin officials dismiss talk of dead ends as pointless whining and alarmism from liberals.

Not all of Wall Street's concoctions have been pointless or destructive, of course.

I'm sure by now, we've all seen our fair share of LED lights used in pointless ways.

pick and roll is pointless if our guys don't make shots. they'll always trap tmac hard. rotate the other big guy to yao.

Instead you should try to rub the hurtful remarks from your mind , and stop the pointless agonising over whether you are in the right job .

In the narrowest of senses, a mission that many said was pointless and too late has already chalked up one success.

Etc etc. It is so pointless that there are now more than 300 million people active on the site, doing their pointless things.

Life without you is like a broken pencil, pointless.

If you are not kind, then you will only cause your partner to set up their defenses and then communication becomes pointless.

Also there are students who participate actively in the lesson although their answers may be quite pointless.

But searching for a precise reason is pointless.

Hey guys, I was wondering which wars do you think were the most pointless wars in history?

Since the West is the principal source of the investment and technology that Russia needs, there is no room for pointless confrontations.

It'; s totally pointless learning grammar for its own sake.

Plus, a lack of financial priorities makes budgeting pointless.

It is pointless for a modern president to plead that some things, such as the business cycle, are beyond his control.

In my 25 years of environmental campaigning I have seen lots of inspired protests and lots of daft or pointless ones.

The bill is at best pointless posturing and at worst dangerous demagoguery.

When each individual proposal, we debated for some, angry and said: This is pointless!

The example in question uses particularly pointless threads.

It's pointless applying for such an undesirable job.

It's still an open question as to whether this reform effort will just be a pointless source of greenhouse gas emissions.

It is pointless to extend a hand to those who desperately want him to fail.

The Host Bored his guests with a long and pointless anecdote.

And it's all but pointless if the user logs in with the correct password and then leaves the machine unattended and unencrypted.

Sacrifice. Sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice is pointless.

Few think neuroscientific research is pointless just because we still know so little about the brain.

When you get angry over some stupid little pointless thing, I question your intelligence.

As many have figured out. . . calling Dell for replacement part was pointless.

He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot. "

Everything seems pointless and useless to me.

The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.

It spurns delay and pointless diplomacy. An army of sperm must assault an ova and overcome it.

Having a purpose is great, but if you don't have a plan on how you're going to achieve that purpose, then it's pretty much pointless.

I thought that even going into the audition was completely pointless, because they were just going to cast a model or something.